How a New Biography Makes Sense of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's Short Life

Elizabeth Beller's book, Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, is out now.

BY ADAM RATHEPUBLISHED: MAY 21, 2024 4:03 PM EDT

he all-too-short life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy has been examined endlessly, both while she was alive and in the 25 years since she, her husband, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. But so much of what the public has been told hasn’t been quite right: tabloid stories, urban legends, and rumors have been repeated so often that they’ve become mistaken for facts. Enter Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, a new biography by Elizabeth Beller that attempts to set the very messy record straight about the life of its iconic, enigmatic subject.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a60846665/carolyn-bessette-kennedy-biography-elizabeth-beller/